Anderson Cooper Rips Trump’s ‘Racist Verbal Assault’: Reading Words About Unity from a Prompter Isn’t Enough

EXCERPT:

COOPER: “It is disturbing enough if this was just Donald Trump revealing prejudice and animus he’s apparently long harbored. But if this is, as it appears to be, a calculated strategy of division and racial identity politics, then where does it go from here? How far does the president of the United States try to make this next election about the other, making it in a sense us versus them in his mind? And as you ponder that, listen to this."
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TRUMP: "I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans, and this is so important to me."
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COOPER: "It is easy to say that when you’re reading at least part of it off a teleprompter, but that sentiment is not what the President reveals in tweets or in his ad libs in large auditoriums. Just ask Elijah Cummings or his constituents, the people of Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District. Saturday, apparently outraged at Chairman Cummings’ questioning of a cabinet member, inspired by something he saw on Fox, he tweeted, and I'm quoting now, 'Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it’s considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States? No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately.'”

(h/t Mediaite)